Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-08-12
FACT AND FANCY.

Bodkn is the name Of prominent Boston
tailor.
Brass kettles, once hammered out, are now
| spun on lathe.
Mrs. Hulda Nelson, OF Albany, ~ Y, cele-
brated her one-hundredth birthday Tuesday.
Ina population OF 1888, Cambridge, the
seat OF Harvard university, has 1923 Hitter
ates
The recorder OF deeds In the District OF
Columbia is q native mulatto of Grand Gulf,
Miss
vicar In England has greatly distinguish
ed himself by refusing to bapize child
Jubilee"
Nearly all the glass factories In the United
States have ceased operations for thirty to
sixty days.
The anti-treating movement recently or
gsnized at Macon, Ca, Is spreading rapidly
through the state.
There are said TO be thirty.two summer re-
sorts along the Atlantic coast between Cape
May and Long Branch.
1t is estimated that one hundred thousand
people bathed in the surf at Coney Island,
New York, on the Fourth.
One Of the latest allegations is that women
Of fashion shed more tears over spoiled
dresses than over spoiled children.
The question Of fireplace ornamentation is
settled in some country houses by filling tie
fire place with shelves to hold brio a-bac.
1t is tsted that one American offered 81, SOC
for ticket Of admission to Westminster alb
hey on the occasion of the jubilee service.
Massachusetts, men charge only 50 to certify
TO q public certificate that they were cured OF
consumption by somebody's patent medicine.
new thing in New York luuch-rooms a
zigzag counter, at which the customers sit
back to back. 1t utilities all the space in the
room.
new clubhouse now being built by the
Arion society, Of New York, will cost when
completed 500, 900. The society is thirty
three years old.
Ninety-pound cabbages and three hundred
pound squashes are referred 10 Ia Arroyo
Grande, Cal, papers as among the recent pro-
ducts Of that place
In 1887 colored woman put s9i in saw.
ings bank at Baltimore. The other day her
heirs drew out 81, 800 as a result of the in
crease Of the original amount
New Hampshire farmer got caught In q
barbed-wire fence and had TO stay there fol
five hours He confided TO his hired man thai
lie never got so tired Of swearing in his life.
At Glboa, " Y, they are laughing o'ei
the fact that Mrs. p. II. Rlchtmyre, aged 50
years, has just completed pair OF trou,.u
for her husband, aged 80 TO play baseball in.
monster conduit that was built at a co,t
Of $500, 900 10 carry the waste from several
main sewers in Newark 10 the bay is now d.
nounced as a failure, and experts are TO be
appointed to investigate.
The British postmaster general is consider
ing scheme for the use Of the telegraph in
connection with postal orders That is to sag,
payee is to be advised by wire of the amount
TO his credit at his given postotiice.
This is a dull and Improbable season for
the great crowd Of lawyers at Rutland, VI,
who say that they never had SO little to do in
the way of dividing up some other peoples
! property among themselves as now.
An absent-mindcd Pittsburgh preacher re
marked in a eulogy from his pulpit last Sun
day that death loves a mining shark" There
upon four stock and a man with {
brother in Colorado got up and left the ss'ret
| building.
The clergyman who preached the gradu&
tion sermon at one of the semlnsries told tn,
sweet-glrl graduates TO 'love God and man =
| Good advice, girls; half Of 1t Is likely 10 b,
followed and this is more than can be said O.
most sermons Of the kind.
A little 4-year- old sat clinchIng his fingers
around a silver quarter Of dollar At sunday.
school recently, and reluctantly surrendered /.
TO the lady who collected the contributions
saying afterwards al didn't want 20 give it to
Mrs. b. ! wanted to give 1t to the Lord"
Rev DIR. Bacon and Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher were once dispuuug some religious
/ subject, when the former accused the satter
of using wit IN his ,uriaons. "Well," sad
Mr. Beecher, Suppose II had pleased God to
/ give you wit, what would YOU have donel
a Yermonter, attending a prsyer-mectin.
IN Massachusetts,, heard an elderly gentleman
( express his feelings in the following manner:
"And we should all, nus dear friends. bliss
the Lord that we were not born IN Africa nor
/ Vermont, nor any other dark corner OF the
earth!n
Mayor Hewitt, while walking along Yves,
Twenty-fourth street, New York the other
day, found two ash barrels filed With debris
on the sidewalk. Instead u writing letter
to the board Of health department maxim. a
! complaint, he and his companion tackled the
barrels and ramoved them 10 the stop line
A correspondent of The Nev York Sum
writing from Perth Amboy, n. j., claims thai
be has seen a woman's face very distinctly ia
the full moon by the aid OF field glass or a
small telescope. 1t is quite large, occupying
nearly the entire disk. The face is turned
somewhat 10 the left Of the observer, and IS
that Of matronly woman Of middle age, tue
features bearing au expression Of dignity ard
repose.
Visitors 10 the famous cathedral at Pueb a,
Mexico, the other day was amazed at fndise
the front of that historical edihcc covered
with advertisements of United States sew
T.. inc machine. How II got there and und.r
what Influence it lie allowed TO remain no one
can tell, but there II is beside the main es-
trance, with the last pastoral letter from the
archbishop and the usual collection OF infor-
nation about feast days and ihdulgences.
Voung man ~ Nav York CITY who .p,ar